A new 360 degree panoramic view of Mars has been released by Nasa, showing
fresh rover tracks, craters billions of years old and parts of the research
station from where the pictures were taken.

The photograph is composed of 817 separate images taken between December and
May by a camera mounted upon Nasa’s
rover Opportunity.

Opportunity landed on the Red Planet in January 2004 and works from Nasa’s
winter base, which is known as Greeley Haven after planetary scientist and
team member Ronald Greeley, who died last year. The base is located on the
lip of a massive blast crater,